[gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-27 Thread Duncan
Luca Barbato posted on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:14:12 +0100 as excerpted: > On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: >> That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically >> added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to >> existing files is vastly easier and more performa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-27 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 02/27/2016 11:50 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 02:14:12PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: >> On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: >>> That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically >>> added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to existi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 02:14:12PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: > > That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically > > added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to existing > > files is vastly easier and more performant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-27 Thread Raymond Jennings
Especially if the changelog files are broken up by year or so. On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: > > That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically > > added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Ohey, >> >> I've opened a bug at: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573922 >> >> The idea here is to change the order of the providers of virtual/udev. >> For existing installs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-27 Thread Luca Barbato
On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: > That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically > added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to existing > files is vastly easier and more performant than trying to prepend entries > and having to rewrite the entire fil

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-27 Thread Martin Vaeth
Rich Freeman wrote: > > Clearly it doesn't increase by a factor of 1 every year The yearly increase of the factor is rather precisely 1: According to current data, it is .95, see below. With xz compression for squashfs, it is even 1.4! (Note: increase _of_ the factor, not _by_ the factor, of cou